the FNSEA is considering a resumption of actions if concrete efforts are not made before the Agricultural Show

“There was no beginning of the beginning of a meeting.” The president of the FNSEA Arnaud Rousseau warned the government on Sunday February 11, twelve days before the opening of the Agricultural Show (February 24-March 3). Guest of BFTMV, the boss of the first agricultural union envisaged a resumption of farmers’ actions if concrete efforts were not made by then. “We are not at the right tempo (…), we have to speed up the tempo”he warned.

Arnaud Rousseau explained that he was to be received by Prime Minister Gabriel Attal on Tuesday afternoon but that “for 10 days” and the suspension of dams and actions of farmers, he did not “did not have a ministerial meeting” neither with the Minister of Agriculture nor with the Prime Minister, and “no follow-up point”. “We put very concrete proposals on the table (…). If we were made fun of, obviously it could not happen in the classic conditions of welcoming the President of the Republic on the first Saturday of ‘opening of the show’warned Arnaud Rousseau.

After two weeks of road blockages and sometimes tumultuous actions, the demonstrators broke camp at the beginning of February after three bursts of announcements from Prime Minister Gabriel Attal on subjects as diverse as pesticides, farmers’ pensions or meat. synthesis. “We want to see concrete decisions that can be seen on farms”said the boss of the FNSEA, even if “we understand that, regarding the law, we need a little delay”.